Satellite Surveillance - Peacepink2019-09-15T10:25:16Zhttps://peacepink.ning.com/forum/topics/satellite-surveillance?commentId=2351430%3AComment%3A368381&feed=yes&xn_auth=noI would love to meet targeted…tag:peacepink.ning.com,2016-04-05:2351430:Comment:6762002016-04-05T21:43:43.027Zdavid jurcuthttps://peacepink.ning.com/profile/davidjurcut
I would love to meet targeted indeviduals in australia
I would love to meet targeted indeviduals in australia Hii my name is david jurcut a…tag:peacepink.ning.com,2016-04-05:2351430:Comment:6760312016-04-05T21:04:16.483Zdavid jurcuthttps://peacepink.ning.com/profile/davidjurcut
Hii my name is david jurcut and I am a targeted individual.. im being electronically harrassed and tortured.. it all started with gangstalking for me.. but now its totally mind controling electronic harrassment im have just bought a quewave defender when It comes I hope it works
Hii my name is david jurcut and I am a targeted individual.. im being electronically harrassed and tortured.. it all started with gangstalking for me.. but now its totally mind controling electronic harrassment im have just bought a quewave defender when It comes I hope it works I would like to meet "targete…tag:peacepink.ning.com,2016-03-13:2351430:Comment:6727862016-03-13T16:07:56.282Zheinrich hoffmanhttps://peacepink.ning.com/profile/heinrichhoffman
<p>I would like to meet "targeted individuals" in London, UK</p>
<p>I would like to meet "targeted individuals" in London, UK</p> EileenRockefeller photos and…tag:peacepink.ning.com,2016-01-05:2351430:Comment:6627822016-01-05T07:38:48.243ZYan Xu (CIA modified my messageshttps://peacepink.ning.com/profile/YanXu
<p>EileenRockefeller photos and other Rockefeller family photos.</p>
<p>EileenRockefeller photos and other Rockefeller family photos.</p> Soleilmavis said:
Mass Surv…tag:peacepink.ning.com,2015-12-30:2351430:Comment:6618352015-12-30T15:53:57.442ZLou Ritterhttps://peacepink.ning.com/profile/LouRitter
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<blockquote cite="http://peacepink.ning.com/forum/topics/satellite-surveillance?xg_source=activity#2351430Comment52765"><div><div class="xg_user_generated"><b>Mass Surveillance and State Control:</b><br></br> The Total Information Awareness Project<br></br> New book examines dangerous trends toward surveillance state.<br></br> Published on October 24, 2010<br></br> by Elliot D. Cohen, Ph.D.…<br></br></div>
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<blockquote cite="http://peacepink.ning.com/forum/topics/satellite-surveillance?xg_source=activity#2351430Comment52765"><div><div class="xg_user_generated"><b>Mass Surveillance and State Control:</b><br/> The Total Information Awareness Project<br/> New book examines dangerous trends toward surveillance state.<br/> Published on October 24, 2010<br/> by Elliot D. Cohen, Ph.D.<br/> <a href="http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/what-would-aristotle-do/201010/mass-surveillance-and-state-control-the-total-information-awaren" target="_blank">http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/what-would-aristotle-do/201010/...</a><br/> Did you know that The Department of Defense has an ongoing research project to <b><a href="http://skimlinks.pgpartner.com/mrdr.php?url=http%3A%2F%2Fskimlinks.pgpartner.com%2Fsearch.php%2Fform_keyword%3Dremote%2Bcontrol" class="skimwords-link" target="_blank" title="Shopping Link Added by SkimWords">remote control</a> soldier’s emotions and tolerance for stress</b>? A soldier who didn’t display fear in dangerous situations and didn’t experience fatigue, would make a better fighting machine. And what better way to <b>turn a human being into a mere machine</b> devoid of personal freedom and autonomy. In a world that is under total surveillance, there is not likely to be much we could call freedom. Freedom to speak or think would be freedom to speak or think what the authorities permit.<br/> <br/> In my new book, Mass Surveillance and State Control: The Total Information Awareness Project, I detail the ways in which our personal privacy has been and continues to be eroded and how we are now heading toward a <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Brave-New-World-ebook/dp/B003XRELDY/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1351197896&amp;sr=8-2&amp;keywords=brave+new+world" class="skimwords-link" target="_blank" title="">brave new world</a> of total information awareness and control. Now afoot is an interconnected web of trends toward greater and greater modes of control, which will predictably advance with the advent of new technologies and the loosening of constitutional safeguards against the abridgment of privacy. Accordingly, what is needed now more than ever before in the history of humankind is a vigilant, well organized, grass roots effort to stem this malignant tide before it is too late.<br/> <br/> Steadily escalating is the program of warrantless wiretapping of millions of American’s personal, electronic communications, which began under the Bush administration. This mass dragnet of personal email messages, phone calls, and Internet searches is now being done with a virtual blank check from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance (FIS) courts, which were originally created in 1978 to assure that, in gathering foreign intelligence, the government would not abridge the Fourth Amendment rights of Americans.<br/> <br/> The Obama administration has blocked law suits against telecom companies such as AT&amp;T for assisting the National Security Agency in this mass dragnet of electronic communications; and it has also sealed up the ability of American citizens to seek redress by suing the federal government, even if it can be shown that such wiretaps had been unlawfully conducted.<br/> <br/> The Obama administration has just announced its intention to make it easier to wiretap Internet communications that use encryption such as <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Blackberry-9530-Unlocked-Carrier-Worldwide/dp/B00466R0V6/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1353683898&amp;sr=8-3&amp;keywords=blackberry" class="skimwords-link" target="_blank" title="">Blackberry</a> transmissions, social networks like Facebook, and direct peer to peer transmissions like Skype. The Justice Department is also now seeking to get a federal appeals court to overturn a ruling prohibiting the clandestine planting of <a href="http://skimlinks.pgpartner.com/rd.php?r=26&amp;m=817221763&amp;q=n&amp;rdgt=1403277059&amp;it=1403449859&amp;et=1403881859&amp;priceret=69.95&amp;pg=~~2&amp;k=6232547a30c21a20ca3761bf5950b687&amp;source=feed&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Ebuydig%2Ecom%2Fshop%2Fproduct%2Easpx%3Fsku%3DBU360200%26ref%3Dpricegrabber%26omid%3D122%26utm%5Fsource%3DShopping%26utm%5Fmedium%3DCSE%26utm%5Fitem%3DBU360200%26CAWELAID%3D1432412955&amp;st=feed&amp;mt=~~~~~~~~y~~~" class="skimwords-link" target="_blank" title="">GPS tracking devices</a> on people’s cars without a warrant.<br/> <br/> Congress has recently reauthorized the most invasive provisions of the U.S. Patriot Act. Pursuant to this Act, in the course of conducting a terrorism investigation, if a federal agent discovers evidence implicating a person in a crime, this information can be admissible in convicting the individual of that crime. Thus, if a person is under surveillance by the FBI and if it is discovered therein that this person is growing or possesses marijuana, then this information can be used to secure a criminal conviction, even though the information was acquired without probable cause. What is more, pursuant to the Patriot Act, the FBI agent would not need a warrant to conduct the terrorist investigation through which the incriminating information was acquired.<br/> <br/> Amid such thin and ever diminishing legal protections, as surveillance technologies continue to be developed and expanded, we can expect increasingly greater and greater abridgments of privacy.<br/> <br/> Consider, for example, how the Transportation Security Agency has recently advanced beyond the use of metal detection devices, baggage scanners, and physical searches. After an unsuccessful attempt by a would-be terrorist to ignite a bomb in Times Square, the Obama administration has stepped up use of body scanners at airports, which electronically undress people, exposing even their genitals. This may be just the tip of the iceberg.<br/> <br/> The Defense Department is presently developing a new generation of scanning technology that can scan brains. Given the evisceration of Fourth Amendment protections, what legal safeguards are left to prevent government from taking its national security interests to the next level of requiring all air travelers to have their brains scanned for “suspicious” thoughts before boarding their flights? Changes of such magnitude do not happen overnight but occur incrementally. Once we give up our right to privacy regarding our bodies, it is that much easier to do the same regarding our minds.<br/> <br/> In public places such as a city street Americans have been well advised not to expect privacy. However, in their own homes, Americans have always enjoyed a right to privacy. Unfortunately, the public/private distinction has already begun to be dismantled. A global positioning (GPS) device on your car over weeks, months, or years can paint an elaborate profile of you—whether you are having an affair, how often you frequent the local tavern, what people you visit, what political gatherings you attend, what congregation to which you belong, how often you attend services, and so on.<br/> <br/> Radio frequency Identification (RFID) <a href="http://skimlinks.pgpartner.com/mrdr.php?url=http%3A%2F%2Fskimlinks.pgpartner.com%2Fsearch.php%2Fform_keyword%3Dtracking%2Bdevices" class="skimwords-link" target="_blank" title="Shopping Link Added by SkimWords">tracking devices</a> placed on the things you buy are also a potential goldmine of private information about you; and it may be only a matter of time before these items come complete with both RFID and GPS tracking capabilities.<br/> <br/> Most of us have also become increasingly aware of the presence of <span class="skimwords-potential"><a href="http://skimlinks.pgpartner.com/mrdr.php?url=http%3A%2F%2Fskimlinks.pgpartner.com%2Fsearch.php%2Fform_keyword%3Dsurveillance%2Bcameras" class="skimwords-link" target="_blank" title="Shopping Link Added by SkimWords">surveillance cameras</a></span> on the nation’s roadways as well as city streets. These <a href="http://skimlinks.pgpartner.com/mrdr.php?url=http%3A%2F%2Fskimlinks.pgpartner.com%2Fsearch.php%2Fform_keyword%3Dsurveillance%2Bcameras" class="skimwords-link" target="_blank" title="Shopping Link Added by SkimWords">surveillance cameras</a> have also found their way into facilities such as banks and other “sensitive,” privately owned properties. While some of these cameras are unmanned, others run live feeds that are monitored 24-7 by law enforcement. Such cameras are also plugged into a network of federal databases such as the FBI’s biometric database, and, through use of special biometric identifiers (including facial recognition software), can integrate this data with the live feeds from these <a href="http://skimlinks.pgpartner.com/rd.php?r=885&amp;m=1024975949&amp;q=n&amp;rdgt=1403277391&amp;it=1403450191&amp;et=1403882191&amp;priceret=119.99&amp;pg=~~2&amp;k=eff789d7352df5c58625d51ef8910431&amp;source=feed&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Ftarget%2Erdr%2Echannelintelligence%2Ecom%2Fgo%2Easp%3FfVhzOC8fBggESSNjW1FZQxJrFz92Z1EABEwDZ2pcWxdDXSJXNzAjFx0fR0AofBsCGRREKhFHUElsNHxYXFlUXTF%2DGAoZFk07VzBpMk5RVUNKMCAWTh0aRTtQbjcmX0RVWFwzMwEADl5SJ0xQWkluJzJAV0JRGD0%2ADgAAXkY9EHBrfgJzHQECbWBfUF5AHixaJXknSkZvUVMpDTcwO0IRbg8VGWUFDRcQQkJZWzo1HQIJEUQseycidWF8fQ0Ia2BdU1hGEnh8EwoUEGdeUEMsOwgNDhcHEnZgAhVwNDdLFENCVjw9CwZWEEg3e3ZzaxkKAQYQPCIBAAQXRGMDICg6TllZVBhh%26nAID%3D5784816&amp;st=feed&amp;mt=~~~~~~~~y~~~" class="skimwords-link" target="_blank" title="">video surveillance cameras</a>.<br/> <br/> Technologies now also exist that can “see” through walls. Without the need for warrants, the hunt for terrorists can literally end up in your bedroom.<br/> <br/> Did you know that Thomson Reuters, which controls Reuter’s News Service, now also maintains a massive data warehouse consisting of the personal information of millions of Americans? This includes health, credit card, and banking records, and virtually all other online, personal data. Military contractors such as Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) supply data mining software to government agencies such as the NSA, which enables these agencies to analyze the information in this massive database, including integrating it with other personal data such as email and phone conversations, web sites you have visited, and Internet searches you have conducted.<br/> <br/> Did you consider that the software, which integrates and parses through this massive web of information, is prone to yielding false positives? In other words, by some fluke, you can end up on a government watch list, or worse, branded an “unprivileged enemy belligerent,” taken into custody, and given “enhanced interrogated.” It is no longer a matter of thinking you have nothing to hide when everyone is now considered a terrorist suspect.<br/> <br/> As detailed in Mass Surveillance and State Control, these and other technological, social, political, legal, financial, and economic factors key into an integrated web of emerging state controls, which are part of an even larger picture. This larger picture includes the changing politico-corporate landscape of media and telecommunication companies with an insatiable appetite for increasing their bottom lines through military contracts, relaxed Federal Communication Commission (FCC) regulations, the granting of mergers, corporate tax breaks, and other forms of incentives for cooperating with the prevailing government authority.<br/> <br/> This larger picture also includes a “war on terror” and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, which have been used to justify ever increasing levels of state surveillance; a revolving door between government officers and military contractors; a current trend toward control of both content and conduit of the Internet (the gutting of “net neutrality”) by behemoth companies such as Comcast; and a transnational quest for political and economic power and control.<br/> <br/> Unfortunately, the prognosis for the survival of the free world is quite bleak if the stated trends are not stopped very soon. It is the ever constant creep of a culture of control that presents the most insidious danger. As we begin to accept increasingly greater and greater restrictions on our civil liberties, the technology to further abridge these liberties continues to expand and lead the way to even greater abridgements. This process is subtle and we are not likely to notice that our freedom is gone until it is too late, or maybe not even then. In the end, we may consider ourselves a “free” people but have little understanding of what that even means.<br/> <br/> <br/> <i><b>Mass Surveillance and State Control: The Total Information Awareness Project</b></i><br/> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Mass-Surveillance-State-Control-Information/dp/0230103049" target="_blank">http://www.amazon.com/Mass-Surveillance-State-Control-Information/d...</a><br/> <br/> <b><u>Elliot D. Cohen, Ph.D.</u></b> Elliot D. Cohen (Ph.D. Brown University) is President of the Institute of Critical Thinking and one of the principal founders of philosophical counseling in the United States. He is founder and editor of International Journal of Applied Philosophy and International Journal of Philosophical Practice, ethics editor of Free Inquiry Magazine, and co-founder and Co-Executive Director of the American Society for Philosophy, Counseling, and Psychotherapy. Author of thirteen books and numerous articles in applied philosophy and professional ethics, his books include, The New Rational Therapy: Thinking Your Way to Serenity, Success, and Profound Happiness (Prometheus), What Would Aristotle Do? Self-Control through the Power of Reason (Prometheus), The Virtuous Therapist: Ethical Practice of Counseling and Psychotherapy (with Gale Cohen) (Wadsworth), Philosophers at Work: Issues and Practice of Philosophy (Wadsworth), Caution: Faulty Thinking Can Be Harmful to Your Happiness (Trace-Wilco). Dr. Cohen has lectured and taught at a number of colleges and universities in the U.S. and has appeared on National Public Radio and Air America, and has been interviewed by the New York Times Magazine and the London Observer, among other national and local venues.</div>
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<div class="xg_user_generated">I have been targeted for fifteen years.... and yes, I do feel the connection in my right ear.... always have since day one. it says "I am doug" on the left, and "I am John" on the right thumb-- and the warmth and touching of the right ear.</div>
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<p>"What I really don't understand, but I am old, is why they think sexual acts are so fascinating and degrading." : so am I, and it's a wonder to me too. Some idea that sex is an all time fascination and all round motivation, which it is not.</p>
<p>"What I really don't understand, but I am old, is why they think sexual acts are so fascinating and degrading." : so am I, and it's a wonder to me too. Some idea that sex is an all time fascination and all round motivation, which it is not.</p> These are men who suffer ED …tag:peacepink.ning.com,2015-12-29:2351430:Comment:6615232015-12-29T01:39:49.378ZLou Ritterhttps://peacepink.ning.com/profile/LouRitter
<p>These are men who suffer ED cat cat. they cannot sustain an erection and have normal sex anymore. so they need a person to whom they can GIVE a sexual climax so they can 'feel' it. In this manner, they repeat the degrading sexual love that has been their obsession all their adult life.</p>
<p>These are men who suffer ED cat cat. they cannot sustain an erection and have normal sex anymore. so they need a person to whom they can GIVE a sexual climax so they can 'feel' it. In this manner, they repeat the degrading sexual love that has been their obsession all their adult life.</p> In 2001, I became very FAMILI…tag:peacepink.ning.com,2015-12-27:2351430:Comment:6614082015-12-27T17:58:33.718ZLou Ritterhttps://peacepink.ning.com/profile/LouRitter
<p>In 2001, I became very FAMILIAR with Satellite surveillance without having any idea what it was.</p>
<p>I spoke to several 'somewhat trusted' acquaintances/friends and asked HOW can I be so targeted without any 'chip' or membership which requires hypnosis or devotion... etc. They thought me "techhed in th' head a bit</p>
<p>so, without going through the 5 or 6 years of despair, until I FOUND "The Shocking Menace of Satellite Surveillance" by John Fleming'" and read it with horrified eyes…</p>
<p>In 2001, I became very FAMILIAR with Satellite surveillance without having any idea what it was.</p>
<p>I spoke to several 'somewhat trusted' acquaintances/friends and asked HOW can I be so targeted without any 'chip' or membership which requires hypnosis or devotion... etc. They thought me "techhed in th' head a bit</p>
<p>so, without going through the 5 or 6 years of despair, until I FOUND "The Shocking Menace of Satellite Surveillance" by John Fleming'" and read it with horrified eyes and open mouth... realizing this is my perverts.</p>
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<p>Having NO WAY to prove the insults and assaults I suffer, I have spent the last years mostly with my mouth shut. I speak to my Sisters who are my prayer warriors and eternal friends, sympathizing greatly--- for as greatly they know, I am not a liar or pretender. I have Doctors who attest to my sanity and are willing to stand anywhere and declare I am not paranoid, and am otherwise quite normal... just that the satellite 'users' who hack me, do as MUCH as they can to try to force me to anal sex.... which is ALL they really want. When Prayer and the POWERFUL of All, gives me great strength to withstand their amorous onslaughts, I am attacked with gall that feels as though I swallowed DRANO- My small digit toes are crushed till i cry, i am poked, prodded, heart made to race, blood pressure goes up by 50 points or more, given diabetes. Macullar degeneration, vertigo, nausea - and sleep deprived until I have become addicted to sleep aids. After July of this year of 2015, I entered the 15th year of suffering. I will soon be 80 years of age. That does not hinder these perverts at all.</p>
<p>What I would give as advice and warning to others.... stay off computer CHATS unless you KNOW the people with whom you are speaking. Never accept a phone call or make one to people you do not know- and should be suspicious of. And the most truthful help I can challenge you to do.... be Saved b y the Lord Jesus Christ, unless you already are.... and never fail to pray daily and follow HIS lead.</p>
<p>Pray for me, please... I have a 52 year old daughter, who is mentally and physically challenged. I have cared for her all her life, and I am often VERY tired. Ask God to give me extra strength, and Hope. thank you</p> Darpa Raymond States Exe. Can…tag:peacepink.ning.com,2013-12-27:2351430:Comment:4650962013-12-27T23:09:33.742ZChippedhttps://peacepink.ning.com/profile/LeeMaltese
<p>Darpa Raymond States Exe. Can Terminate Me for Posting The Truth - Freedom OF Speech! I'm Lee lee563@ykcwb.com.</p>
<p>I said this country is going down at Virtuagirl.com and received a Darpa invisible electronic implant. <br></br>I am being threatened with wifi pain to take a US Gov. Darpa's Agency offer to let their porn site Virtuagirl.com sell illegal sex taken from my room without my knowlege nor consent for one million dollars. I won't be sold like prostitute like he sells his childern…</p>
<p>Darpa Raymond States Exe. Can Terminate Me for Posting The Truth - Freedom OF Speech! I'm Lee lee563@ykcwb.com.</p>
<p>I said this country is going down at Virtuagirl.com and received a Darpa invisible electronic implant. <br/>I am being threatened with wifi pain to take a US Gov. Darpa's Agency offer to let their porn site Virtuagirl.com sell illegal sex taken from my room without my knowlege nor consent for one million dollars. I won't be sold like prostitute like he sells his childern Boston and Cheyenne, it was illegally recorded and sold by the US Government Darpa Agency!! Darpa (Agency) Adv. Alien tech. invisible retina-eye invisible cell implant from his home or Virtuagirl.com then from your computer to view, record or sell you at one of their porn sites. It's an invisible live cam and cell phone anywhere you go.</p>
<p>Howard W. Raymond, a drug abuser and a disturbed harsh Democrat that wifi harasses Christian Republicans microwave harasses using a Darpa Agency by his Darpa Exe. for warfare mind control surveillance research 24 hrs. a day,<br/>He sells his members sex from their monitor to Virtuagirl.com, Virtuaguy.com, Paulraymond.com, or one of his thousand other porn sites. <br/>Howard is mental and a threat to society he said microwave tortures people worldwide and laughs. <br/>Darpa Implant (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) invisible microwave retina-eye 666 number series program implants from your computer or cell phone. Raymond said there are many other agencies implanting citizens and world for the New World Order. Howard uses a Gov. Darpa microwave Adv. Alien invisible retina eye implant and Gov. Computer he wifi's your house then can view and sell members at all his thousands of Gov. porn sites. This invisible nano program eye implant they have installed from the Internet his home then from my computer monitor into the retina of my eye and millions of other porn viewers from thousands of his porn sites. I received this implant from Virtuagirl.com his home and I was a platinum member. I called the Anaheim, Ca. Police they said Raymond is US Gov. and immune.<br/>Gov. Darpa Immune To Laws, King Of Porn, Howard W. Raymond can sell any bodies sex from their monitor with no cam of your own! He stated his Chief Exe. will get him off almost any crime ! He is a porn billionaire and all porn sites are Gov. Darpa Agency franchised.<br/> <br/>Howard W. Raymond from 72310 Blueridge Ct. Palm Desert, CA. 92260 has all personal info, bank accounts, cc, ss, drivers license and passwords when I used them on my computer! Mind, Computer porn hijacked! </p> Broad coalition sues feds to…tag:peacepink.ning.com,2013-07-17:2351430:Comment:4205962013-07-17T05:32:03.383ZSoleilmavishttps://peacepink.ning.com/profile/1033oxmqvvrga
<p><strong><span class="entry-title">Broad coalition sues feds to halt electronic surveillance by National Security Agency</span></strong></p>
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<p><strong><span class="entry-title">Broad coalition sues feds to halt electronic surveillance by National Security Agency</span></strong></p>
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<p>Environmental and human rights activists, church leaders and gun rights advocates found common ground on Tuesday, filing a lawsuit against the federal government to halt a vast National Security Agency electronic surveillance program.</p>
<p>The lawsuit was filed in federal court in San Francisco by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, which is representing the unusually broad coalition of plaintiffs.</p>
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<p>It seeks an injunction against the NSA, Justice Department, FBI and directors of the agencies, and challenges what the plaintiffs describe as an “illegal and unconstitutional program of dragnet electronic surveillance.”</p>
<p>“Our goal in this case is to highlight one of the most important ways that the governments’ bulk untargeted collection of telephone records is unconstitutional,” said foundation Legal Director Cindy Cohn. “It violates the First Amendment right of association.”</p>
<p>The suit followed disclosures from former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, who has been leaking details about a broad U.S. intelligence program to monitor Internet and telephone activity to ferret out terror plots.</p>
<p>Snowden, who has been charged with spying and theft of government property, has spent the past three weeks in the Moscow airport transit zone.</p>
<p>On Tuesday, he submitted a request for temporary asylum in Russia, his lawyer said, claiming he faces persecution from the U.S. government and could face torture or death.</p>
<p>NSA public affairs deferred comment on the Electronic Frontier Foundation lawsuit to the Justice Department. A Justice Department spokesman did not respond to a request for comment.</p>
<p>In the suit, the coalition of 19 groups representing about 900,000 people demands that the federal government return and destroy any telephone communications information in its possession. It also wants a jury trial on the allegations contained in the suit.</p>
<p>The plaintiffs fall across the political spectrum, including the First Unitarian Church of Los Angeles, the Council on American Islamic Relations Foundation, Greenpeace, Human Rights Watch, Students for Sensible Drug Policy and others.</p>
<p>Plaintiff Gene Hoffman, chairman of The Calguns Foundation, which advocates against gun control laws, said members are nervous about calling hotlines to ask if they are inadvertently violating any rules or regulations.</p>
<p>“It’s a very serious concern that the sensitive conversation would be something the federal government or state government ... could access and realize what’s going on,” he said.</p>
<p>Dale Gieringer, who directs the California chapter of NORML, said the group joined the suit because members working to reform marijuana laws also have concerns about privacy.</p>
<p>“Because we are devoted to marijuana reform, many of our members have knowledge of activities that are illegal under federal law,” Gieringer said.</p>
<p>The lawsuit states the federal government has “indiscriminately obtained, and stored the telephone communications information of millions of ordinary Americans as part of the Associational Tracking Program.”</p>
<p>Last month, the American Civil Liberties Union filed a similar lawsuit in federal court in New York asking the government to stop the phone tracking program. Several other civil libertarian organizations have also filed legal actions, hoping to increase the odds of victory by taking cases to federal judges in different jurisdictions.</p>
<p>A legal expert said one challenge that plaintiffs face is proving they have actually been wiretapped or been a victim of surveillance.</p>
<p>“But it’s now clear that virtually everyone’s phone call records can be gathered in this metadata collection program, so I believe they do have standing,” said University of Chicago law professor Geoffrey Stone.</p>
<p>Other legal issues include whether the surveillance constitutes a violation of the Fourth Amendment, which guards against unreasonable searches and seizures.</p>
<p>In addition, George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley said the Obama administration will likely argue, as it has in the past, that the surveillance is protecting national security.</p>
<p>“It’s distressing that until the Snowden disclosures, the administration insisted that any discussion of these surveillance programs would cause grave national security problems,” Turley said. “What’s fascinating is that after Snowden came forward, the administration didn’t hesitate a second in discussing the surveillance in the public realm.”</p>
<p>After Snowden’s disclosures, Yahoo asked the U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, which reviews government requests to spy on individuals, to unseal a 2008 case that ordered the Silicon Valley firm to turn over customer data.</p>
<p>On Monday the court agreed, although the government is going to review the records first to see what material, if any, is classified and should be withheld.</p>
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